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Martin Hindmarsh read music at the University of Birmingham, gaining a first class honours degree and later an M.Mus in Opera Studies. He studied singing privately with John Cameron and with Joseph Ward OBE.
During the 1980`s Martin sang with the BBC Northern Singers, featuring on many occasions as a tenor soloist. He gave the first broadcast performance of Walden, a cantata for tenor, choir and piano by David Gow and has broadcast as a soloist with the BBC Philharmonic, the Northern Sinfonia and the Grimethorpe Colliery Band. CD recordings include songs by Alan Rawsthorne, Philip Wilby’s Unholy Sonnets and songs by John McCabe. During 2002 Martin gave the first performances of the scena for tenor and piano by John Joubert, On Offa`s Back.
Martin has also performed with the Lindsay String Quartet, singing Vaughan Williams` On Wenlock Edge on two occasions, Stravinsky`s In Memoriam Dylan Thomas and a programme of sacred music by Haydn. He has also given a recital at the Buxton Festival.
Martin has a wide oratorio repertoire and has performed across the world: The Dream of Gerontius in Hong Kong; Gounod`s St Cecilia Mass in Singapore; Mozart`s Requiem in Switzerland; Messiah in Germany. He has sung the tenor solos in Beethoven`s Missa Solemnis and Tippett`s A Child of our Time in the Queen Elizabeth Hall, London and Messiah in the Bridgewater Hall, Manchester. Recent performances have included Dvořák’s Stabat Mater and the Evangelist in the Bach Passions.
Martin is married to the mezzo-soprano Jennifer Westwood. They often appear together in oratorio concerts and each summer they sing at the Bayreuth Festival. In 2004 they gave a series of joint recitals of songs to mark the centenary of the death of Dvořák. They have other programmes available both for recitals and special events.
Martin is Director of Performance at the University of Sheffield, where he is also the Director of the Symphony Orchestra and the Chamber Choir. He conducts both the North Yorkshire Chorus and the Hull Choral Union, and has conducted the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra in Walton’s Belshazzar’s Feast and Elgar’s Cello Concerto.
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